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Ashes obtained by burning juniper
Ashes obtained by burning juniper
Object Number 98-9-10/51818
Display Title Ashes obtained by burning juniper
Descriptions
Indigenous Term Kot
Object Description Ashes obtained by burning juniper
Inventory Description Ashes, bottled
Classification
  • Raw Material
Department Ethnographic
Culture
  • Navajo
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / New Mexico
Locality
Localities / <North America> / <United States> / <Reservations> / Navajo Reservation
Additional Geographic Terms Northwest New Mexico
Materials Ash
Dimensions Overall: 6.1 x 3.4 x 3.4 cm (2 3/8 x 1 5/16 x 1 5/16 in.)
Quantity 1 Bottle
Label on object 51818
Provenance
Collector George H. Pepper (1897)
Donor B. Talbot B. Hyde (1898)
Donor Frederick E. Hyde, Jr. (1898)

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PrimaryMedia Object Number Title Classification Geography/Provenience
Image Not Available for Box of ashes from fireplace
80-60-10/23937 Box of ashes from fireplace
Ash
Pecos
Image Not Available for Ashes
84-73-10/36919 Ashes
Great Oyster?; Whaleback?
Image Not Available for Ashes of the "pottery tree"
67-1-30/21 Ashes of the "pottery tree"
Pestle
Suriname
Dutch Guiana
Children, Eating: Girl cooking meat in ashes with a fire paddle
2001.29.1351 Children, Eating: Girl cooking meat in ashes with a fire paddle
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
Groups: People sitting around the ashes of "Gao Medicine's" fire; showing a termite mound, N!ai and /Gunda's wedding skerm, and a tree in a dance circle in the background
2001.29.1859 Groups: People sitting around the ashes of "Gao Medicine's" fire; showing a termite mound, N!ai and /Gunda's wedding skerm, and a tree in a dance circle in the background
Gautscha
Wash bowls set in ashes
58-34-20/63649 Wash bowls set in ashes
Valladolid
/Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine"), and "Little ≠Gao" (son of /Qui and //Kushay) dancing around a pile of ashes
2001.29.14645 /Gaishay (son of "Gao Medicine"), and "Little ≠Gao" (son of /Qui and //Kushay) dancing around a pile of ashes
Gautscha
Flint flakes bone & ashes attached
88-46-40/47063 Flint flakes bone & ashes attached
Chipping debris
France
Image Not Available for bags of bones and ashes
999-22-10/84032 bags of bones and ashes
Neville
2 small pebbles, crust of ashes, used in cooking
34-93-40/1417 2 small pebbles, crust of ashes, used in cooking
Raw Material
Ground Stone
Homolka
Food, Cooking: Gemsbok horns in the ashes of a fire, with wood, ostrich egg shells, a mortar and a pestle on the ground next to it
2001.29.2987 Food, Cooking: Gemsbok horns in the ashes of a fire, with wood, ostrich egg shells, a mortar and a pestle on the ground next to it
Nyae Nyae Conservancy
"Old ≠Toma" of Band 2, ≠Gao (husband of Khwo//o-/Gasa, brother of "Old Gau") of Band 4, "Old /Gaishay" of Band 3 and "/Qui Navel" of Band 1 sitting with "Old Gau" around the ashes of his fire, distant view
2001.29.14589 "Old ≠Toma" of Band 2, ≠Gao (husband of Khwo//o-/Gasa, brother of "Old Gau") of Band 4, "Old /Gaishay" of Band 3 and "/Qui Navel" of Band 1 sitting with "Old Gau" around the ashes of his fire, distant view
Gautscha